FactoryLink Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (known commercially as FactoryLink) monitors, supervises, and controls industrial processes enabling customers to perfect their processes and products. Built on an advanced open architecture, FactoryLink Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition delivers the highest performance and flexibility to customers building vertical applications in a wide range of industries.
Highly scaleable, FactoryLink Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition can be used to build virtually any size application, from the simplest Human-Machine Interface (HMI) systems to the most complex and demanding Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. This flexibility is demonstrated by the more than 80,000 systems that have been installed worldwide in dozens of diverse industries.
FactoryLink Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition provides comprehensive state-of-the-art tools that empower users to configure applications tailored to exactly satisfy their requirements. Spanning the spectrum of real-time human machine interfaces (HMI), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and industrial information management applications, the versatility of the product is virtually unlimited. This flexibility is demonstrated by the more than 80,000 systems that have been installed worldwide in such diverse industries as:
FDA 21CFR Ready
NEW in FactoryLink 7.5 is the complete set of functionality necessary to build FDA compliant HMI/SCADA applications including digital signatures (single and double), detailed audit trails, reason codes and more.
Graphical User Interface
FactoryLink Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition's graphical interface is called Client Builder. It provides a comprehensive object-oriented visualization environment with embedded Microsoft VBA to enable a completely tailored solution. NEW in FactoryLink 7.5 is the one-click client that enables rapid deployment of client nodes across the net.
Alarms and Events
The alarm manager is completely distributed, so multiple applications can aggregate their alarms and events, allowing a single user to view, acknowledge and respond to geographically dispersed applications. NEW in 7.5 is the ability to e-mail alarm status and acknowledgements.
Reports
NEW in FactoryLink 7.5 is a comprehensive reporting application that enables up to the second analysis of monitored industrial processes. Integrators and users can add their own reports to the extensible reporting framework.
Create Applications Even Faster
NEW in FactoryLink 7.5 is a 10x performance enhancement in the automated creation of systems via our groundbreaking application object technology allowing systems to be build entirely from Excel, ODBC data sources or question and answer forms.
Networking and Redundancy
FactoryLink Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition easily supports redundant applications with its advanced networking functionality. It is just as easy to build other network topologies including standalone, client-server, multi-station and peer-to-peer configurations.
Trending
Users are capable of easily viewing the real-time and historical information simultaneously on any single chart, enabling operators to make more intelligent operational decisions.
Data Logging
FactoryLink Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition provides high-speed recording of large data sets in a column-oriented schema for raw speed or a row-oriented schema to easily enable dynamic additions.
Relational Database Interfaces
FactoryLink Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition supports any ODBC database such as SQL Server, which is included with the product. The relational database interface can communicate simultaneously with multiple back-end databases from different vendors.
XML Interface
Real-time bi-directional access to the FactoryLink Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition database is available to any XML enabled external application.
Device Interfaces
A rich library of external device interfaces is available covering hundreds of popular shop floor devices including PLC, RTU and DCS hardware.
OPC Client
Standards based communication to any OPC enabled data source is easy and quick using FactoryLink Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition's included OPC client.
OPC Server
Unique in the industry, OPC is the standard communication mechanism between a FactoryLink Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition server and client. You can use the OPC server to broadcast real-time data to any standard OPC client.
Math and Logic
A powerful server-side Math and Logic scripting language enables almost any unique requirement to be met. It can be either interpreted for easy debugging or compiled for maximum speed.
Recipes
A recipe task enables easy batch download and upload of process variables with FactoryLink Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition.
Custom Tasks
Tasks developed with the programmer's access kit are completely integrated into the FactoryLink Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system and are configured the same as FactoryLink Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition tasksx.
Performance and Scalability
FactoryLink Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition provides the speed and performance necessary to handle all sizes of applications from very small to very large. It can scale from a system with just a few tags and one user to one with millions of tags and hundreds of users, without sacrificing performance.
Platforms
Supported platforms included Windows 2000®, Windows XP®, and Windows 2003 with graphical remote access via FactoryLink ClientBuilder, the NEW FactoryLink one-click client or Windows Terminal Services.
